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During April, West Michigan is in the heart of the spring season. The typical high temperature warms from 52° on the 1st to 64° on the 30th. Overnight low temperatures take a 10° rise going from 32° to 43°.We typically see more...

February’s global land and sea average combined temperature of 1.48 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average was the second highest for the month since records started, according to the latest monthly analysis released on Wednesday...

February 2015 will be remembered for the extreme, record setting cold. The average low temperature for Grand Rapids was 4.71° which is 15.19° below average. The high temperatures were also colder than normal. The average high was 21.96&deg...

Emperor penguins, the iconic waddlers that can handle temperatures a low as negative 76 degrees Fahrenheit, may survive global climate change in the same place they survived the last ice age. This is the hopeful conclusion of research conducted by...

During March, West Michigan typically turns the corner putting winter in the rear view mirror. As we set our sites on spring, the typical high temperature warms from 38.0° on the 1st to 51.2° on the 31st. Overnight low temperatures take a...

WEATHERTORIAL: A few weeks ago, returning from an AAAS (American Association For The Advancement of Science) Conference in San Jose, CA, I had the pleasure of meeting another conference attendee at a San Jose airport restaurant. The gentleman, a...

The month of February is half over, and so far Grand Rapids has experienced record cold temperatures and even record snowfall. The month started with record snowfall. So far this month Grand Rapids observed 14.9 inches which is 6.0 inches above...

The pernicious, partisan and often myopic eco-activists’ cries to green every private, government and commercial human act are not always prudent investment decisions. In 2005, the Wall Street Journal estimated that U.S. government...

January 2015 will be remembered for the record cold temperatures.The average low temperature for Grand Rapids was 14.55° which is 3.54° below average. The high temperatures were also colder than normal. The average high was 27.84°...

Last week, the Republican controlled Senate voted, 98-1, in favor of an amendment stating that "climate change is real and not a hoax.”But Senate Republicans refused to go on the record about what is causing global warming. The only...

February typically pulls West Michigan out of the cold and snowy month of January and toward a warmer and drier month. February is the driest month of the year with only 1.79” of liquid precipitation. The average snowfall decreases, as...

Climate scientists don’t call Storm Juno a "once-in-a-century" blizzard. They call it totally predictable.For years, climate scientists have been saying that Nor’easters, such as Storm Juno, will become more powerful, and...

The good news about the 2015 State of the Union Address (SOTU) is that President Obama agrees we need to fight climate change, create a fair economy, and ensure that every person has the right to vote. He even went as far as calling out climate...

Consistently over the last decade and recently, Democrat leaders such as Clintons Bill and Hillary, Al Gore, Pres. Obama, Biden, their progressive cabinet and their Democrat caucuses have broadly proclaimed that global warming and climate control...

“As the new Congress begins its work, we need to send them a message about the social spending we need and the corporate handouts we don’t,” says Lukas Ross, Climate and Energy Campaigner for Friends of the Earth.He makes a good...